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Turns Out You'll Be Able to Buy a Fucking Jetpack Next Year

The jetpack can fly up to 3,000 feet and as fast as 50 miles per hour. It also costs $150,000.

The world's first commercial jetpack is going on sale next year, and if you're rich as hell, you'll be able to park it in your garage. The Martin Jetpack, which debuted at last week's Paris Airshow, can fly up to 3,000 feet, tops out at about 50 miles per hour, and can stay in the air for 30 minutes at a time. Though that sounds super sick, the thing costs about $150,000, meaning you're probably still going to be a flightless loser next year.

Martin Aircraft, who will start delivering the jetpack to customers in the second half of 2016, is mostly marketing the pack to first responders. They hope emergency services like fire departments or search and rescue operators find the jetpack useful in crises that standard vehicles are too bulky to manage. Martin's CEO, Peter Coker, told Reuters the jetpack will be able to land on rooftops covered with wires and fly through tight spaces, making it a nice alternative to helicopters.

Apparently the jetpack is safe—which is nice, since you're basically going to be rocketing through the air with your arms and legs dangling in space. Martin says the pack has built-in safety features similar to those in a Formula One car, and includes a "ballistic parachute system" that can be deployed a few feet from the ground, so you can save yourself and your insanely expensive flying machine simultaneously.

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